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Try singing the McDonald's song to the tune of Happy Birthday: Two all beef pat-ties. Special sauce, let-tuce cheese. Pi-ickles onionsssss. On a sesame seed bun. On April 15, 1955, Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald's franchise in Des Plaines, Ill. The idea for the fast-food burger restaurant came after he visited a burger joint in San Bernardino, Calif. owned by the McDonald brothers. Now, 59 years later, there are more than 34,000 stores in 118 countries serving 69 million people every day, according to McDonald's website. That's roughly 1 percent of the world's population. Of course, around the world, not everyone is digging on a Big Mac and those...

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Try singing the McDonald's song to the tune of Happy Birthday: Two all beef pat-ties. Special sauce, let-tuce cheese. Pi-ickles onionsssss. On a sesame seed bun.
On April 15, 1955, Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald's franchise in Des Plaines, Ill. The...

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